Sweet 16 months

We are 16 months already and in less than 2 months we will be in nursery at church. I think Mommy and Daddy are more excited than we are about it. Mommy has lots of pictures she needs to upload on the blog. We are busy, busy, busy. We are now climbing on the dining table quite often and getting in trouble for it. We tend to stay off it a little more when it is clear, but Mommy seems to be putting stuff on it a lot lately so we feel the need to explore. Logan is down to binkies only during nap and bed time now and is starting to try and talk more now too. We can both tell you what a lion, monkey, doggy, and car say. We can say Hi and Ya. We are doing great at nap time. We will walk ourselves to our cribs and Logan will even try and climb into the crib. Even if we are not quite ready for a nap we will stay in our cribs and play for a little while then take our morning nap...our afternoon naps are another story we are either going to nap or we are not.

Over conference weekend we made a quick trip to Katy. Work wanted Daddy in Lufkin on Monday morning so since they were already paying for most of the gas we make a weekend trip of it. Conference was as wonderful as getting to see the family.

Tent set up in the living room

Our 2 house campers

This past weekend we went on our first camp out. Thursday night we had a camp in to practice to see how the kids would do. Not too good. The kids were so excited about having a tent in the living room. Alyssa just could not settle down...finally at 11 I took her into our room and still had to sing to her to calm her down and then she went to bed so we were really taking a gamble at the camp out. We camped at Camp Wisdom...a scout camp not 5 miles from our house, one that I did not even know existed until about 2 months ago. We went with a bunch of people from church and the gamble was the gate closes at 10. We did GREAT. We had a fabulous time and look forward to doing it again...it just won't be over the summer when it is 90+ degrees at night.

The kids just keep growing and growing Logan now has 14 teeth and Alyssa has 8. We are being more reverent during scripture time and we kneel down, bow our heads, and fold our arms for prayers at night and morning now. Over the summer we are going to spend a little time in Lufkin while Daddy works there for the next 3 months starting in 1 week. Mommy has lots of packing and planning to do.

We have started throwing things...so far only a few toys, mostly balls so that is appropriate...and never in anger yet. We have however started throwing fits. We both do the fall on the floor and fuss. Mommy is not a big fan and hopes that this is a very short phase and that it does not escalate from there...ya right...good luck Mommy.

We are very tech savvy and skype with Grandma at least once a day...we even got to skype Uncle Stephen in Afghanistan once. Logan can now close doors and loves to do it. He will actually go and push Alyssa out of the room so he can close the door...we keep most of our doors closed since they really are not opening them yet, but they did at the Dr office last time...both of them...luckily we do not have the lever knobs we have the nice round ones that require twisting not just a bit of leverage.

These kids are goof balls. At first we thought it was only Logan, but Alyssa's colors are beginning to shine through as well...probably because when Mommy plays with them she acts a bit silly herself. We get lots of funny faces...and you can tell they are making them on purpose and waiting to see your reaction. Alyssa also recently decided that she likes to plop down on the couch and will do it over and over and over again and have the biggest smile on her face the whole time.

Recently Mommy has been helping us work on our balance by giving us rides on her back. We are getting a lot better at sharing...we even share without being asked most of the time, but when it comes to our rides we are not that great at sharing.